Germany gives 120 military vehicles to help Cameroon in fight against Boko Haram

Posted On
Wednesday, 26 November 2014 08:44

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Defence & Security News - Germany & Cameroon

Wednesday,
November 26, 2014 09:45 AM

Germany
gives 120 military vehicles to help Cameroon in fight against Boko Haram

On
November 18, 2014, the Cameroonian Defence Minister, Edgar Alain Mebe
Ngo’o, received a donation of military equipment from Germany in
the form of 120 all-terrain vehicles which “have proven themselves
in past military operations in areas such as Afghanistan.”

Mercedes "Wolf"
tactical military vehicle

Speaking
about the donation, which included 60 Mercedes WOLF jeeps and 60 UNIMOG
trucks, Minister Mebe Ngo’o noted that “this large donation
is for the fight against Boko Haram and will support the participation
of Cameroonian forces in the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated
Stabilisation Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA).”

Indeed, for several months, the Nigerian Islamist sect, which has attacked
several areas of northern Nigeria bordering the towns and villages of
Extreme-North, Cameroon, has persisted in carrying out incursions in Cameroon.
Boko Haram, which has already kidnapped and later released several expatriates
and Cameroonian nationals, can expect a robust response now from the Cameroon
at the border it shares with Nigeria.